Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1887-12-17
DR.. J. B. Ritchey. Agricultural Editor.
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utes of respect, ETC., are charged for as ad.
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without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible.
THE Democratic party can very
well afford to go to battle next year
with Mr.. Cleveland at its head, and
his message as its armor.
THE contested election case in the
U. S. Senate from West Virginia, has
been decided in favor of Faulkner,
and he took his seat Wednesday.
THE Republican National Com
mittee in session at Washington last
week, selected Chicago as the piece
for holding their convention next
June.
In letter recently written to Mr..
II. M. Doak, of Nashville, Hon. Jas.
d. Porter indirectly announces his
candidacy for the u. S. Senate, to
succeed Harris.
THE Nashville American offers a
prize of ten dollars for the best Christ
mas story not exceeding 1000 words
in length, written by boy or girl
not over sixteen years of age.
HIGH license has reduced the num-
Der of saloons in Philadelphia nearly
fifty per cent. This only adds new
lustre to those which survive, how
ever, and makes them more danger
Gus still.
A CONVENTION of third and fourth
class postmasters has been in session
at Washington this week. The OBJ
.iect of the convention is to suggest
suitable adjustments of postmasters'
salaries.
GEN. CHALMERS, of Mississippi, in
an open letter in Sundays Memphis
Appeal asks the Republicans for an
invitation to join their ranks. They
greedily take all such offers and nc
questions asked.
READERS of political papers are 60
ing to be treated to tariff discussion
morning, noon and night all through
next year. The subject will do fol
the big daily papers to tackle, but
little country weeklies had better
shell the woods for higher game.
1t is customary now to put white
flowers on the desks of congressmer
who have been elected without fraud
N. O. Picayune.
1t must make the Republicans
green with envy to see all of the
Democratic desks decorated with
such emblems of purity.
THE New York Commercial Ad
vertiser says several Congressmer
will press the matter of a reduction
Of letter postage to one cent during
the present term. The country car
stand such legislation as this with
out murmer, and it is another gooC
way to dispose of some of the surplus
WE are in receipt of the first mum
Der of the Tennessee Globe, publish
edat Huntsville, by John d. Andrews
It rises out of the ashes of the defunc
Sentinel, is thoroughly Democratic
and for Hon. J. II. Trousdale, O
Summer county, for Governor. 1t j
an eight-column quorto, and start
with a good advertising patronage.
SENATOR CULLOM introduced hi
postal telegraph bill last Tuesday. |
provides for ten trunk lines of tele
rraph wires to start with, PRACTICAL,
covering all the larger cities of tn
country, and appropriates four mil
lions of dollars for the purpose. Tn
rates fixed in the bill for message
are about one-tenth of the Wester
Union rates.
TIrE Presidents Message may We
prove the entering wedge in a recasl
inc Of political parties. High pre-
tective Democrats don't find muc
.bn,fort in the document, while